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Quote from Mark Twain,


"How you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better."


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Mark Twain (more quotes by Mark Twain or books by/about Mark Twain)


[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American author and humorist

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Deception, Patriotism, Politics, Security, War

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